Agreed. Sounds like a pretty reasonably speced phone at a sensible price. Much like the Nexus line was originally. I'm still using my Nexus 4 (which runs latest android, albeit unofficial rom, perfectly well) but I'm in the market for an equivalent phone now. This could just be it.
I've been out of IT (professionally) for some years now, and before that I wasn't contracting anyway. I'm sure you can get better rates than that, but my experience of UK vs US professional salaries is that we generally get paid a lot less and (taxed a lot more, although we also get more services back in return). I'm a doctor now and looking at US salaries they seem to be 2 to 5 times what we get here (salaries seem to vary more in the states, e.g. between specialities), which is a big difference.
Not really. They is a good rational for doing this, they are discussing it publicly and the opt-opt will be clear and easy. This is how you develop trust.
Can't argue with the pricing there. But if you want something lower power and smaller size try one of these https://m.aliexpress.com/s/ite... still more power than you need for most applications (especially if you're comparison is some crappy little MIPS router). I considered pfsence but I'm more of a Linux person and didn't need the bells and whistles of the nice GUI, so it's just running stock Debian with ip tables and very little else on it (but with a lot of options if you want to do more with it).
It's not just not going to help you stay young, but likely to do you harm. Giving blood is not without risk in both the short and long term, the latter only only really becoming appreciated relatively recently. While some junior doctors on surgical wards might give it out willy-nilly if left unchecked a more sensible doctor gives blood products when there is no alternative and a real and immediate risk from not doing so.
Unlikely to become law before the UK leaves the EU, so probably irrelevant. However, I suspect iPlayer wouldn't be affected anyway as you're not paying for the service, you're paying a TV license to receive broadcast TV in the UK. While you may not be allowed to use iPlayer without a TV license, that's not the service you're paying for. If you look at the briefing (linked in the article) it mentions the BBC specifically: "The draft regulation would apply to content services... which are: (e) free-of-charge online services offered by providers (e.g. public broadcasters such as the BBC) who choose to introduce portable services and agree to verify their subscribers' Member State of residence." So it applies to them if they agree to verify a subscriber's member state of residence, but presumably if they don't agree to do it then it doesn't apply to them. It's also worth noting that the BBC doesn't have subscribers anyway. Of course the text of the law is probably a long way off and who knows what it will actually say (not that it will matter to the BBC by then).
£8.60 in UK - standard NHS prescription charge (although the British National Formulary lists the actual cost at £26 each). At least 2 other brands licensed in the UK, pretty much the same price.
Cheaper? That seems to imply you're paying for them in the first place. In the UK credit cards are generally free. Sure there are a few offered for a fee, in return for something you probably don't want (like travel insurance that doesn't cover winter sports, or all the world, and costs more than a regular policy to upgrade it, or some other pointless benefits), but they aren't popular. In fact credit cards with cashback are pretty common here. I get 1% of everything back on my card. I don't know how that compares in value terms to airmiles, but they wouldn't be as popular here. I think people here fly less with big carriers that use airmiles. Most of the time when I fly it's not too far and I take a budget airline for £20-30 a flight. Paying for banking services never really caught on in the UK. There have been an increase in paid current accounts in the UK in recent years, but they have had to offer perks that genuinely offset the fee to get people to take them, as cashback again. I do have a paid current account, I pay £5 a month and get I get back (for example, last month) £37 in much higher than normal rate of interest and cashback on my direct debits, as cash straight back into the account every month. It's a no-brainer, as you America's would say. But paying to collect points is not popular here.
If they hold incorrect information about you (such as this bogus claim) you can demand they correct or delete it under the data protection act. That applies to the ISP and the group making the claim. I appreciate that doesn't answer the question of how you do that, but sending a few emails to their respective legal departments should get a response. If you don't get any joy you can take them to the office of the information commissioner, they have all sorts of powers to punish people who don't comply with the data protection act.
UK NHS drug tariff price for genuine Epi-Pen £52.90 for a pair (that's approx. what the NHS actually pays), actual cost to patient £8.40 (standard NHS prescription charge, exemptions apply for those on benefits, etc.) The NHS may be systematically being dismantled by the government and the media, and it's hated by Americans because they have been told it's socialist and pushed propaganda to support their country's alternative view on healthcare, and yes it does have real problems too (most of which could be solved by proper funding, but see my first point), but this is an example of why a proper healthcare system is a good thing to have. We are going to miss it in another 10 years when it's gone and find ourselves in the mess America is in.
Not in 2012, but now yes probably. The Elephone Trunk I bought my dad recently for £50 (near enough same spec as the current Moto G) would do me perfectly well right now. Same would probably apply to 90% of people out there buying £600 phones on contracts though, mobile phones ran out of innovation a couple of years ago, now the biggest feature of this new phone is supposedly is Google Assistant, which would run perfectly well on that £50 phone.
Agreed. I paid £240 for my Nexus 4, which was an excellent price at the time and the main factor in my purchase. Turned out to be a good investment too, as I'm still using it now almost 4 years later, and it still does everything I need and want a phone to do. Lack of 4G isn't a problem because I don't want to stream HD movies to my phone (who does this?) and I don't play fancy games which I suspect might be a little slow on a 4 year old GPU. I don't anticipate needing an upgrade for the next year or two even, but if these new phones had been at the right price they would probably have tempted me.
Were the old nexus devices subsidised? Or are they just trying to make money out of the hardware now when they didn't before? If so I think that's the wrong strategy from a software / data / search / whatever company. If they want people to use these services give them a well priced phone and they will come.
It's not a law, it's an acknowledgement of an inalienable right, and it only spells that you to prevent the government from restricting it, so that should the government become non-representative, as it was in 1776, we have the ability to overthrow it again.
It's only that way as long as the government chooses to keep it. It's an amendement to the constitution and these can be repealed with another amendment. Prohibition is the obvious example, enshrined in the constitution by amendment XVIII and repealed in amendment XXI. It was of its time and in hindsight not a great idea. To pretty much everyone else in the western world, and an increasing number of people in the US, the same can be said of the 2nd amendment.
Regrettably, by 2005 when working at IBM, I encountered no evidence it had ever existed. Windows and Linux boxes only, and the topic never brought up.
I left IBM in 2007 and my department still had a couple of moderately significant products running and supported on OS/2. I don't suppose the OS/2 versions got a lot of marketing attention, or anyone buying new licenses, but it hadn't disappeared altogether. Given the nature of the product, and the customers using it, I suspect it still hasn't.
I think that's the point, read the spec and make a cable to the spec, i.e. a good cable. Or do you mean just read the bit of the spec that does the authentication and then still use bad wire? Probably not worth the effort of only doing half a decent job rather than going the full way, hopefully anyway.
UK is the only place I know of where appliances are sold without power cords.
Really? I live in the UK and regularly buy appliances of various kinds and they have always come with a power cord, so this is news to me. I can just about remember a time when it was standard for devices to come without a plug and you were expected to wire your own on (presumably a hang over from the change in plug types and the fact that older ones were still in common usage for a while), but it's been a requirement for them to come with plugs for probably 20+ years.
I can assure you, as someone who lives elsewhere in the UK, only people in London want to live in London. There is no desire amongst the rest of the UK population to move there. Unless you have to go there for work it's somewhere you might visit once every few years at most, with a very specific purpose in mind, and you don't enjoy it when you do.
The difference here seems to be that in your example you are primarily interested in where the the transaction is taking place (or in the case of e-commerce, where it is initiated from). All fairly reasonable, but obviously does still create a "tracking" record, but only of where you use your cards. This is suggesting, and admittedly it's quite vague (but that should never be taken as a good thing), they are just as interested in knowing where you are, by unspecified means using your electronic devices.
Now from what's said it doesn't suggest an app has to be involved in the actual transaction, and if it's not an interactive process then they must be keeping a record of where you are to compare against transactions as and when they happen. Maybe the their app pings them your location regularly, regardless of making any transactions, or maybe they pay the phone companies to give location info for your phone.
They also don't limit themselves to location, they may also use unspecified "other data" from/about your devices.
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£236 on eBay. But if you buy direct from China on AliExpress it works about about £192, but a bit riskier with delivery, tax, etc.
Agreed. Sounds like a pretty reasonably speced phone at a sensible price. Much like the Nexus line was originally. I'm still using my Nexus 4 (which runs latest android, albeit unofficial rom, perfectly well) but I'm in the market for an equivalent phone now. This could just be it.
I've been out of IT (professionally) for some years now, and before that I wasn't contracting anyway. I'm sure you can get better rates than that, but my experience of UK vs US professional salaries is that we generally get paid a lot less and (taxed a lot more, although we also get more services back in return). I'm a doctor now and looking at US salaries they seem to be 2 to 5 times what we get here (salaries seem to vary more in the states, e.g. between specialities), which is a big difference.
Not really. They is a good rational for doing this, they are discussing it publicly and the opt-opt will be clear and easy. This is how you develop trust.
What has always been missing in the search for MH370 is MH370.
Fixed that for ya ;-)
Can't argue with the pricing there. But if you want something lower power and smaller size try one of these https://m.aliexpress.com/s/ite... still more power than you need for most applications (especially if you're comparison is some crappy little MIPS router). I considered pfsence but I'm more of a Linux person and didn't need the bells and whistles of the nice GUI, so it's just running stock Debian with ip tables and very little else on it (but with a lot of options if you want to do more with it).
It's not just not going to help you stay young, but likely to do you harm. Giving blood is not without risk in both the short and long term, the latter only only really becoming appreciated relatively recently. While some junior doctors on surgical wards might give it out willy-nilly if left unchecked a more sensible doctor gives blood products when there is no alternative and a real and immediate risk from not doing so.
Unlikely to become law before the UK leaves the EU, so probably irrelevant. However, I suspect iPlayer wouldn't be affected anyway as you're not paying for the service, you're paying a TV license to receive broadcast TV in the UK. While you may not be allowed to use iPlayer without a TV license, that's not the service you're paying for. If you look at the briefing (linked in the article) it mentions the BBC specifically: "The draft regulation would apply to content services ... which are:
(e) free-of-charge online services offered by providers (e.g. public broadcasters such as the BBC) who choose to introduce portable services and agree to verify their subscribers' Member State of residence." So it applies to them if they agree to verify a subscriber's member state of residence, but presumably if they don't agree to do it then it doesn't apply to them. It's also worth noting that the BBC doesn't have subscribers anyway. Of course the text of the law is probably a long way off and who knows what it will actually say (not that it will matter to the BBC by then).
£8.60 in UK - standard NHS prescription charge (although the British National Formulary lists the actual cost at £26 each). At least 2 other brands licensed in the UK, pretty much the same price.
Cheaper? That seems to imply you're paying for them in the first place. In the UK credit cards are generally free. Sure there are a few offered for a fee, in return for something you probably don't want (like travel insurance that doesn't cover winter sports, or all the world, and costs more than a regular policy to upgrade it, or some other pointless benefits), but they aren't popular. In fact credit cards with cashback are pretty common here. I get 1% of everything back on my card. I don't know how that compares in value terms to airmiles, but they wouldn't be as popular here. I think people here fly less with big carriers that use airmiles. Most of the time when I fly it's not too far and I take a budget airline for £20-30 a flight.
Paying for banking services never really caught on in the UK. There have been an increase in paid current accounts in the UK in recent years, but they have had to offer perks that genuinely offset the fee to get people to take them, as cashback again. I do have a paid current account, I pay £5 a month and get I get back (for example, last month) £37 in much higher than normal rate of interest and cashback on my direct debits, as cash straight back into the account every month. It's a no-brainer, as you America's would say. But paying to collect points is not popular here.
How did the competition backfire?
backfire /bakf/ (slashdot can't do phonetics!)
verb
Pronunciation
2 (of a plan or action) have an opposite and undesirable effect to what was intended.
They wanted a sensible name, they got a stupid one - their plan backfired.
If they hold incorrect information about you (such as this bogus claim) you can demand they correct or delete it under the data protection act. That applies to the ISP and the group making the claim. I appreciate that doesn't answer the question of how you do that, but sending a few emails to their respective legal departments should get a response. If you don't get any joy you can take them to the office of the information commissioner, they have all sorts of powers to punish people who don't comply with the data protection act.
Isn't this how Microsoft tried to bash Google, because they matched keywords in emails to ads?
UK NHS drug tariff price for genuine Epi-Pen £52.90 for a pair (that's approx. what the NHS actually pays), actual cost to patient £8.40 (standard NHS prescription charge, exemptions apply for those on benefits, etc.) The NHS may be systematically being dismantled by the government and the media, and it's hated by Americans because they have been told it's socialist and pushed propaganda to support their country's alternative view on healthcare, and yes it does have real problems too (most of which could be solved by proper funding, but see my first point), but this is an example of why a proper healthcare system is a good thing to have. We are going to miss it in another 10 years when it's gone and find ourselves in the mess America is in.
Not in 2012, but now yes probably. The Elephone Trunk I bought my dad recently for £50 (near enough same spec as the current Moto G) would do me perfectly well right now. Same would probably apply to 90% of people out there buying £600 phones on contracts though, mobile phones ran out of innovation a couple of years ago, now the biggest feature of this new phone is supposedly is Google Assistant, which would run perfectly well on that £50 phone.
Agreed. I paid £240 for my Nexus 4, which was an excellent price at the time and the main factor in my purchase. Turned out to be a good investment too, as I'm still using it now almost 4 years later, and it still does everything I need and want a phone to do. Lack of 4G isn't a problem because I don't want to stream HD movies to my phone (who does this?) and I don't play fancy games which I suspect might be a little slow on a 4 year old GPU. I don't anticipate needing an upgrade for the next year or two even, but if these new phones had been at the right price they would probably have tempted me.
Were the old nexus devices subsidised? Or are they just trying to make money out of the hardware now when they didn't before? If so I think that's the wrong strategy from a software / data / search / whatever company. If they want people to use these services give them a well priced phone and they will come.
Yes, because the only thing between the user and the network cable is software. Definitely no other hardware involved.
Not even the linked article claimed this.
It's not a law, it's an acknowledgement of an inalienable right, and it only spells that you to prevent the government from restricting it, so that should the government become non-representative, as it was in 1776, we have the ability to overthrow it again.
It's only that way as long as the government chooses to keep it. It's an amendement to the constitution and these can be repealed with another amendment. Prohibition is the obvious example, enshrined in the constitution by amendment XVIII and repealed in amendment XXI. It was of its time and in hindsight not a great idea. To pretty much everyone else in the western world, and an increasing number of people in the US, the same can be said of the 2nd amendment.
Regrettably, by 2005 when working at IBM, I encountered no evidence it had ever existed. Windows and Linux boxes only, and the topic never brought up.
I left IBM in 2007 and my department still had a couple of moderately significant products running and supported on OS/2. I don't suppose the OS/2 versions got a lot of marketing attention, or anyone buying new licenses, but it hadn't disappeared altogether. Given the nature of the product, and the customers using it, I suspect it still hasn't.
I think that's the point, read the spec and make a cable to the spec, i.e. a good cable. Or do you mean just read the bit of the spec that does the authentication and then still use bad wire? Probably not worth the effort of only doing half a decent job rather than going the full way, hopefully anyway.
UK is the only place I know of where appliances are sold without power cords.
Really? I live in the UK and regularly buy appliances of various kinds and they have always come with a power cord, so this is news to me. I can just about remember a time when it was standard for devices to come without a plug and you were expected to wire your own on (presumably a hang over from the change in plug types and the fact that older ones were still in common usage for a while), but it's been a requirement for them to come with plugs for probably 20+ years.
They do seem to know the difference between the Rod of Asclepius and the Caduceus, so at least they have that over the Americans ;-)
I can assure you, as someone who lives elsewhere in the UK, only people in London want to live in London. There is no desire amongst the rest of the UK population to move there. Unless you have to go there for work it's somewhere you might visit once every few years at most, with a very specific purpose in mind, and you don't enjoy it when you do.
The difference here seems to be that in your example you are primarily interested in where the the transaction is taking place (or in the case of e-commerce, where it is initiated from). All fairly reasonable, but obviously does still create a "tracking" record, but only of where you use your cards. This is suggesting, and admittedly it's quite vague (but that should never be taken as a good thing), they are just as interested in knowing where you are, by unspecified means using your electronic devices.
Now from what's said it doesn't suggest an app has to be involved in the actual transaction, and if it's not an interactive process then they must be keeping a record of where you are to compare against transactions as and when they happen. Maybe the their app pings them your location regularly, regardless of making any transactions, or maybe they pay the phone companies to give location info for your phone.
They also don't limit themselves to location, they may also use unspecified "other data" from/about your devices.